In the past I have written about the reasons I write, my passion for the craft and my many literary influences. I believe that the true purpose of writing should not be for the audience but for oneself while at the same time the true essence, as Anais Nin once wrote, should be that “The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” …

“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery–isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than … …

I have a passion for the classics. Classic literature is for me a release into a world, a reality I have never been. Having the literature of the classics submerse me, it became only fitting that I would love poetry equal to if not even more so than the prose. For a while now I have told you that many of my literary favorites were, not only novelists, but poets as well. Acknowledging the greats like that of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Ginsburg, and Bukowski is well understood; yet I have learned … …

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